Luciano Luigi Pellicani (10 April 1939 – 11 April 2020) was an Italian sociologist, journalist and university professor. Pellicani died from COVID-19 in 2020.

Academic career

Pellicani was born in

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. He was awarded a degree in Political Science from the University of Rome in 1964. In 1971 he obtained a degree in Political Sociology and in 1981 became a professor of that subject. He has taught at the

University of Urbino The University of Urbino Carlo Bo (, ''UniUrb'') is an Italian university located in Urbino, in the region of Marche, in north-eastern central Italy. The main campus occupies numerous buildings throughout the historic Urbino town center and the ...

and at the

University of Naples The University of Naples Federico II (; , ) is a public university, public research university in Naples, Campania, Italy. Established in 1224 and named after its founder, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II, it is the oldest public, s ...

. In 1984 he became Professor of Political Sociology at the Faculty of Political Science at

LUISS Luiss University () is a private university located in Rome, Italy, founded in 1974 by a group of entrepreneurs led by Umberto Agnelli. It provides undergraduate and postgraduate education, in addition to a range of Double Degree programs, in t ...

. In 1985 he became Director of the journal ''

Mondoperaio ''Mondoperaio'' is an Italian cultural-political journal that is based in Rome, Italy. The magazine has a socialist stance. History and Overview The magazine began on 4 December 1948 as ''Mondo Operaio'', on the initiative of the former Italian ...

''.

Political career

Pellicani was a collaborator of the

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a Social democracy, social democratic and Democratic socialism, democratic socialist political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parti ...

and then the

Italian Democratic Socialists The Italian Democratic Socialists (, SDI) was a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party was the direct continuation of the Italian Socialists, the legal successor of the historical Italian Socialist Party. The Italian Democrati ...

. In 2006 he was a candidate for the Italian senate for the

Rose in the Fist The Rose in the Fist (, RnP) was a political alliance of parties in Italy. The RnP was composed of the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI; a social-democratic party led by Enrico Boselli and Roberto Villetti), the Italian Radicals (RI; a lib ...

coalition of parties.

Publications

His essay "The Genesis of Capitalism and the Origins of Modernity" was translated to English and published by

Telos Press ''Telos'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes articles on politics, philosophy, and critical theory, with a particular focus on contemporary political, social, and cultural issues.Gary Genosko with Kristina Marcellus, '' ...

in 1994. "Revolutionary Apocalypse: Ideological Roots of Terrorism" was published by Praeger in 2003. In 2005, his essay "Ortega y el homo ludens" was published in the journal Revista de Occidente

References

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